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San Jose Sharks<\/a> (3-3, in the Pacific Division) vs. Nashville Predators<\/a> (2-2-2, in the Central Division)<\/p>\n Nashville, Tennessee; Thursday, 8 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n BOTTOM LINE: The Nashville Predators take on the San Jose Sharks in Western Conference action.<\/p>\n Nashville is 2-2-2 overall and 1-2-0 in home games. The Predators have a 2-1-0 record in games they serve fewer penalty minutes than their opponents.<\/p>\n San Jose has a 3-3 record overall and a 1-1-0 record on the road. The Sharks have a -7 scoring differential, with 16 total goals scored and 23 conceded.<\/p>\n The teams meet Thursday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n INJURIES: Predators: Justus Annunen<\/a>: out (undisclosed), Mavrik Bourque<\/a>: day to day (upper body), William Trudeau<\/a>: out (upper body).<\/p>\n Sharks: Cam Lund<\/a>: out (upper-body), Barclay Goodrow: day to day (illness), Alex Barre-Boulet<\/a>: out (undisclosed), Quentin Musty: out (upper body).<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Associated Press San Jose Sharks (3-3, in the Pacific Division) vs. Nashville Predators (2-2-2, in the Central Division)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[89784,3526,80631,113664,192656,12753,896,88,90,89,98,192657],"class_list":["post-495710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-alex-barre-boulet","tag-cam-lund","tag-event_preview","tag-justus-annunen","tag-mavrik-bourque","tag-nashville-predators","tag-national-hockey-league","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-william-trudeau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}